RendezVous Presents Brussels Art Week

RendezVous is proud to inaugurate the first edition of Brussels Art Week, taking place from September 4th–7th, 2025. This citywide initiative celebrates Brussels’ vibrant and diverse art scene by bringing together galleries, institutions, artist-run spaces, and studios for a shared moment of visibility and momentum on both a local and international scale.

Following a successful soft launch in 2024, RendezVous introduces a newly curated itinerary focused on three key districts: Downtown, Uptown, and Midtown. This innovative format opens up new ways of experiencing Brussels, uncovering the city’s creative bandwidth and its hybrid cultural fabric. The heart of the initiative is the Salon de RendezVous, located at Rue de la Régence 67. Designed by artist Zoe Williams, this immersive installation-bar doubles as a performative social space that invites visitors to engage with the dynamic program of Brussels Art Week.

An Artistic Journey Across Brussels

Kicking off the fall season, Brussels Art Week asserts the city as a site for artistic discovery and dialogue within the international art landscape. The inaugural edition spans three days, with synchronized openings and events across the city’s main districts:

Downtown Brussels (Centre Brussels & Molenbeek) on September 5th
Uptown Brussels (Ixelles) on September 6th
Midtown Brussels (Sablon, St. Gilles & Forest) on September 7th

The Salon de RendezVous serves as the central meeting spot for all Brussels Art Week activities, offering a daily program that includes panel talks, performances, and listening sessions. Zoe Williams’ site-specific installation will transform the space into a playful and seductive environment exploring themes of power, excess, desire, and consumption. The space also offers artist cocktails, inviting social and discursive interactions in the heart of the event.

Notable Exhibitions and Galleries

The program of Brussels Art Week will feature exhibitions by renowned galleries, highlighting both local talent and international resonance. Among the highlights:

Xavier Hufkens will showcase bold new abstract works by Charline von Heyl.
Gladstone Gallery will feature the emotionally charged figuration of Nicholas Bierk.
Almine Rech will display Kenny Scharf’s vivid Pop-Surrealist works inspired by 1980s New York street art.
Mendes Wood DM will present Julien Creuzet’s poetic installations that explore themes of identity and diaspora.

Other notable exhibitions include Vitshois Mwilambwe Bondo at Claes Gallery, Hélène Delprat at Galerie Christophe Gaillard, and Johanna Mirabel at Nathalie Obadia. Nino Mier will debut Gregory Hodge’s layered illusionistic figuration, while Harlan Levey Projects presents Amélie Bouvier’s speculative cosmologies in graphite and ink.

Museums and Institutional Collaborations

Complementing the gallery exhibitions, 11 museums and institutions contribute to Brussels Art Week with their own curated programming. Highlights include:

Fondation CAB (Ixelles): Super Conceptual Pop, featuring artists such as Pierre Bismuth and Stefan Brüggemann reinterpreting conceptual art through the lens of Pop and irony.
Fondation Boghossian (Villa Empain): Timeless Gazes: From Pharaohs to the Present Day, which draws on the Fondation Gandur’s collections to explore the connections between Egyptian antiquity and contemporary African art.
WIELS: A focus on Magical Realism, exploring surreal atmospheres and dreamlike ambiguity in contemporary practice.
La Loge: Inas Halabi’s solo exhibition The Right of Return, investigating the ecological erasure and colonial violence tied to the construction of Israeli national parks on erased Palestinian villages.

Grassroots Art Scene and Artist-Run Spaces

Beyond institutional frameworks, 10 artist-run spaces in Brussels will open their doors to reveal the grassroots art scene and emerging curatorial practices. Highlights include:

CCINQ: GAY SUMMER, a group exhibition exploring queer identities through painting, sculpture, performance, and sound by artists like Saïd Abitar and Irina Favero Longo.
The Green Corridor: Situated Interventions, a performance and textual works series reflecting 13 seasons of site-responsive practice.
spasss: spasss x Corey Bartle-Sanderson, a sculptural and photographic exploration of domesticity, nesting, and material memory.

A Vital Cultural Hub

Brussels has firmly established itself as a vital hub in Europe’s contemporary art landscape. With a dense network of internationally engaged collectors, galleries, institutions, and artist-run spaces, RendezVous – Brussels Art Week brings these diverse forces together to create a dynamic cultural ecosystem, fostering creativity, dialogue, and innovation across the city.

RendezVous 2025 is made possible thanks to the generous support of Art Brussels, Brucity, Duvel, Eurostar, Flanders State of the Art, Fondation pour les Arts, and many more.

Event Schedule

Preview of Salon de RendezVous: September 3rd, 7 pm
Preview of Salon de RendezVous with Zoe Williams: September 4th, 5 – 9 pm
Collective Opening Night at all participating galleries: September 4th, 5 – 9 pm
Brussels Art Week Days:
- September 5th (Downtown Brussels) | 11 am – 7 pm
- September 6th (Uptown Brussels) | 11 am – 7 pm
- September 7th (Midtown Brussels) | 11 am – 7 pm

For more information and to sign up for updates, visit the RendezVous Brussels Art Week website or follow @rendezvousbxl on Instagram.

RendezVous – Brussels Art Week is an exciting new initiative that offers an immersive experience into the heart of Brussels’ dynamic art scene, bridging the city’s rich cultural history with its vibrant contemporary landscape.